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SEPTEMBER 12 - 18, 2014
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Pumpkinville Opens Saturday!
Calendar of Events September 13 - Oct. 31 Pumpkinville
New Attractions Pedal Car Track, Corn Maze, Cornstalk TeePee
September 20 CCAC 2014 Members Show
By Alicia Dziak
September 18 ECS Open House
Food! Fun! Pumpkins galore! It all awaits you at Pumpkinville, opening for the season this Saturday, Sept. 13. Come down to Great Valley to explore 200 acres of fall fun. Admission is free and pay-asyou-go attractions are sure to please everyone. New this year is a pedal car track, located in front of the Corn Maze entrance, providing fast-paced action in tractorthemed vehicles that resemble dune buggies. A Corn Stalk TeePee and a Pumpkin House are also new features sure to please kids and adults! The Corn Maze, a popular attraction for years, is also new and improved. Professionally designed by a Utah-based company, the maze promises to be more challenging than in past years, while still featuring the scavenger hunt. The maze is sponsored by WYRK, whose logo is built into the corn — be sure to check out the aerial view if you take a weekend helicopter ride, offered weekends in October. The popular Jumpin Pillows that were installed last season are ready to provide more high-flying action! The giant, air-filled pillows are built into the ground to provide exciting jumping for kids and adults. Of course, you can’t forget to visit other old favorites along the way including hayrides, the Corn Cannon, the Cow Train, Gem Mining, Storyland and
September 19-21 Rock n’ Roll Weekend September 27-28 National Alpaca Farm Days October 3 Nightmare Hayrides Season Opening
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October 3-5 2014 Salamanca Falling Leaves Festival
support to help get him there. Noah has been wrestling since he was 4 years old, under the coaching of Victor Arena, in the Ellicottville Wrestling Club and has won 104 matches over a two-year period. Last year, Noah placed fourth at the Nationals in Battle Creek, Mich., and wrestled as a member of the NYS National Team and the NYS Duals Team at Ohio State where the team placed fourth. He trains four days a week and works out every day with his training “dummy” Jason or during season with his training partner Simon Clark. His fourth place finish at the Battle Creek nationals qualified him to attend the NUWAY Freak Show. And did I mention Noah is only 7 years old? As a second grader, he is a very active boy See Noah Morlock page 3
Ellicottville Salt Cave to Open Soon
By Eva Potter
“It’s all about breathing … and breathing good air,” said Tracy Draper, owner of the new
October 12 Fall Festival Mountain Bike Race at Holiday Valley November 1 EVL Half Marathon, 5K and Kids’ Race
November 28 Christmas in Ellicottville
Spaghetti Dinner Community Fundraiser Sept. 27
Halotherapy Spa to Use Imported Himalayan Salt
October 11-12 Ellicottville’s Fall Festival
November 16 Routes to Art Holiday Sale at Holiday Valley
Noah Morlock Wrestles His Way to Vegas
Noah Morlock of Ellicottville is headed to Las Vegas, Nev., for a Halloween wrestling match dubbed as the National United Wrestling Association for Youth “Freak Show of Amateur Wrestling.” And he needs his community’s
October 11 Fall Festival 5K Run/Walk Holiday Valley
November 8 Beer and Wine Festival
Pumpkinville page 4
By Jennie Acklin
October 5 EVGV Trail Open House
Ellicottville Salt Cave, which will offer a variety of salt therapy treatments including halotherapy, salt massage and exfoliation treatments. Draper has been a massage therapist for more than eight years, most at a local spa in Ellicottville. About a year ago, a fork in the road led her to Ashville, N.C., where she was introduced to the concept of halotherapy, the use of salt vapor to treat a variety of physical ailments. “I thought this would go great in Ellicottville,” she said. Draper explained that salt caves have been used in Europe for decades dating back to WWII when people hid in the salt caves to escape the bombing. A German doctor noticed this improvement See Salt Cave page 4
School Year Off to Strong Start Enrollment Steady at 600, Open House Sept. 18 By Jann Wiswall
Superintendent Mark Ward briefed the ECS board on backto-school week at its meeting on Sept. 9, beginning with a construction update on the capital project.
With asbestos abatement complete, demolition of the old gym, chorus rooms, home economics room and other spaces is next on the agenda. Because that work will be loud and potentially disruptive,
project managers plan to move to a second shift schedule for a few weeks to confine the worst of the noise to after-school hours. Ward also reported that See School Year Start page 6
Consolidated Funding Grant Denied Village to Foot Entire Bill for Wastewater Treatment Plant
By Jann Wiswall
The Village of Ellicottville’s Consolidated Funding Application (CFA) for a state grant to offset the cost of building a new wastewater treatment plant was rejected by the state’s CFA review
committee last month, leaving the village with the difficult challenge of paying for the entire $4 million-plus project through increased sewer bills for village residents. The new wastewater treatment plant is part of a consent order (a mandate) placed on the village by the state Department of Environmental
Conservation and involves extensive electrical upgrades, new equipment and new systems. The village put tremendous effort into its grant application, including hiring a consultant and engaging the services of the village’s engineering firm, Nussbaumer & Clarke, to See Funding Grant Denied page 7
Planning Board OKs Special Use Permits Approves Armor Inn Preliminary Plans By Jann Wiswall
The Village of Ellicottville’s Planning Board held public hearings on special use permits for four properties at its meeting Sept. 9. The hearing on a new accessory garage and second-
floor apartment at 39 Martha St. prompted questions from the owner of an adjacent property. David Hector, a part-time resident who has owned his property for several decades, said he was “not thrilled about the building” whose apartment
has a window facing into his bedroom. But that was not his primary reason for concern. Instead, his concern is that so many people are converting their barns and garages into accommodations. See Planning Board, page 7